Re: epan_t and capture_file

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Apr 14, 2017, at 4:26 PM, Michael Mann <mmann78 () netscape net> wrote:

> This is an interesting problem because I'm not sure where the "data crunching" should really be done (GUI vs 
> dissector).

By which you presumably mean "UI code of some sort vs. dissector", because...

> For statistics dialogs, I think more data computation is done in the GUI (taking information from taps).

...*tabular* statistics should, by and large, have as little GUI code of their own as possible, preferably none - that 
way, the tabular statistic can be used in TShark (write the table to the standard output) and in whatever GUIs are 
being used for Wireshark (show a table via the GUI) and....
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